Editorial

Last week, about 500 street sweepers under the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) of the Lagos State government protested against delayed salaries and their merger with the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA). The protesters urged […]

WHEN George Herbert Walker Bush campaigned in 1987 and later became the 41st President of the United States, he was regularly referred to in the media as a “wimp”, which a dictionary defines as “a […]

Trapped in the morass of a toxic privatisation, the Nigerian power sector is in dire need of a reversal of fortunes. Five years into the ownership swap deal, the promised gains of massive injection of […]

APPREHENSION is mounting in the polity over the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as it concerns the credibility of the 2019 general election. Matters got out of hand at the weekend when […]

Except in Utopia, the chairmanship of a national party in any democracy on earth, let alone that of a governing party, is certainly not a picnic. The unfolding scenario in the ruling All Progressives Congress […]

The future is precarious unless politicians end the spectre of impunity Apparently worried by a political environment suffused with mud-slinging, rancour, incitement and hate speech, the National Peace Committee headed by a former Head of […]

Chief George Uwechue was born in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha-South Local Council Area of Delta State on November 30, 1938. He was educated in Nigeria and the United Kingdom (UK) where he bagged his LLB (second-class honours) […]

It is a painful reflection of the level of decadence in the country, that the current and immediate past government administrations have lately been embroiled in a contest to determine under whose watch Nigeria can […]

This presentation is in keeping with the expectations of the members of this very important organization at the wheels of economic progress of the nation. Its intent is to provide a veritable source of information, […]

Since November 5, 2018 when the academic staff union of universities (ASUU) embarked on a nationwide strike, the experiences for students, parents and business concerns have not been palatable. Reports have it that all the […]

Nigerian elections would happen in February 2019. As I write, there is still doubt about how the elections would go. The electioneering campaigns seem not to have truly taken off satisfactorily. What we still have […]

When Nigeria’s former head of state, Gen.Yakubu Gowon, recently chaired the 50th Anniversary of the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN), and decried the increasing rate of quackery in the practice of medical laboratory, […]

There is need to invest more in safety equipment The Harmattan haze has announced its arrival and is gradually creeping and putting people and businesses at the risk of fire disasters across the country. Already, […]

…I have done enough research to show that the tethering of our economic fortune to crude oil is totally unnecessary. Another research says that indeed we did not suffer from dutch disease, because more money […]

It is most disheartening that we as Ijaws and Niger Deltans have learnt nothing from the unfortunate attrition we connived and collaborated in, that led to the fall of the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan administration, which […]

As I was saying in part one of this offering last week, Sen. John Owan Enoh is undoubtedly on a rescue mission as far as the 2019 Cross River State governorship contest is concerned. For […]

With the official lifting of the ban on open campaigning, almost every nook and cranny of the country is getting the much-touted democracy dividends that over the years had remained elusive. Areas whose representatives and […]

FOLLOWING the Metele disaster in which 23 (according to the Nigerian Army) and 118 soldiers (according to independent sources) lost their lives and scores wounded, the Federal Government and the Armed Forces responded with defiance […]